Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'not found'

Historically, Google treated the 404 (page not found) and 410 (gone) server header page status codes as the same. Both meant, the page no longer exists. Well, that has all changed now. Google is now treating the 410 as "more...

Posted on October 27, 2009 9:37 AM

In August 2008, Google released what was called the enhanced 404 widget that allowed webmasters to easily create custom 404 pages. In fact, we still have a sample of this in action at advertize.html. But for some reason, I think...

Posted on July 8, 2009 9:03 AM

There are way too many sites out there that have their "Page Not Found" web pages return a 200 header status code, instead of a 404 code or a 301. The issue with showing a 200 code to spiders or...

Posted on March 20, 2009 8:09 AM

There is a very large discussion at Sphinn around a Search Engine Journal post named How to Get Rid of Multiple Subpages & Not Get Penalized. The discussion is around the topics of using different techniques when removing or redirecting...

Posted on August 14, 2008 8:08 AM

A Search Engine Watch Forums moderator asked why are Google's 404 Not Found pages so cold and unhelpful? For example, there is no page on the Google domain over here so Google returns a header status of 404, to tell...

Posted on January 30, 2008 7:10 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread asks how long does Google send out their crawlers to a page that has been removed (i.e. a 404 error not found status)? The simple answer, as mentioned in the thread is, forever. Google will continue to...

Posted on March 9, 2007 7:54 AM